Highway Equipment Company of Ohio announced that Mike Rayz has re-joined the Highway Equipment Company sales team. Rayz is responsible for rentals and sales of Highway Equipment Company’s heavy equipment in Ohio, along with selected accounts in Pennsylvania. The Utica Gas Shale business is growing in Ohio and Highway Equipment Company with the help of Rayz are planning to grow with it. Many of Highway Equipment Company’s customers from western Pennsylvania currently are doing work in the Utica Gas Shale Play in Ohio.

Rayz is a veteran of the construction equipment industry, having worked as used equipment manager and rental coordinator of Highway Equipment Company in Zelienople, Pa. His knowledge of construction, shale gas and pipeline equipment will be a benefit to the customers in his territory, according to the company.

Rayz also is an experienced operator of heavy equipment and enjoys providing customers with solutions to their equipment rental needs. He is customer focused and can relate to both the jobsite foreman and upper level management.

“We are happy to welcome Mike to the Ohio team,” said Al Springer, operations manager at Highway Equipment Company of Ohio. “He has excellent experience, and we look forward to seeing the contributions we know he will make.”

Highway Equipment Company is a sales, rentals, parts and service provider of construction, landscaping, demolition, oil and gas, mining, quarrying, and industrial material-handling machinery. It sells, rents, and services equipment throughout Ohio, western Pennsylvania and Virginia from six locations — the headquarters office located 22 mi. north of Pittsburgh in Zelienople, Pa., and five branch locations in McKean, Pa., Dubois, Pa., Pittsburgh, Pa., Canton, Ohio and Roanoke, Va.

For more information, visit www.highway-equipment.com.

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